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...creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume recounts the life of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who died in 1958, one year before Rick was born...His investigations in the Appalachian foothills along the Georgia-Alabama border turn up a beloved, larger-than-life rambler who inspired backwoods legend among contemporaries, undying devotion from his wife, Ava, and unabashed love and awe from his large extended family....Bragg delivers, with deep affection, fierce familial pride, and keen, vivid prose that's as sharp and bone-bright...
...vote with a mixture of resignation and intense frustration. "I think this decision is stupid, and I use that word very deliberately, because I don?t think anyone?s really thought about the issues here," says Greg Pence, a bioethics professor in the medical school at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. "What do people think happens in assisted reproduction? In a population of hopeful parents, it takes hundreds of embryos to successfully create one baby. What do they think happens to those other hundreds of embryos...
...educational leadership, a one-year paid "residency" under the tutelage of a master principal, and, once in charge of their own schools, two years of intensive professional development. Chicago and other cities have agreed to waive many of their experience requirements for New Leaders fellows. School districts in Alabama, North Carolina and Ohio have begun their own similarly structured leadership programs, and the Senate's version of the President's education bill includes $50 million a year for principal recruitment and training...
...going to be hearing a lot for the next few years: not in my back yard. "Any lease sales that do occur in the 181 area" - a patch of energy-rich ground in the derrick-free eastern part of the gulf - "will occur off the coast of Alabama, not Florida," he said...
...newly proposed area extends to 100 miles south of Mobile and gets no closer than about 200 miles west of Tampa. That's actually OK with the folks in Alabama - they already have plenty of drilling platforms out there, as does most of the Gulf coastline stretching west to Texas. And now it's OK with the folks - the Republicans, anyway - in Florida, who are worried about their white sandy beaches and the mammoth tourism industry that grows on them...